Reborn in the 1960s: My Cellar Leads to the Modern Era

Xing Zhaozhao was a military officer's wife living with her two young sons and unborn child in a rural village during the 1970s. Her husband, Gao Mingcheng, was a battalion commander deployed to the front lines. When soldiers arrived to inform her that her husband was missing and accused of treason, her mother-in-law, Gao Old Lady, immediately turned hostile. In the ensuing chaos, Xing Zhaozhao was pushed, causing her to go into premature labor. She gave birth to a daughter but died from hemorrhaging shortly after. In her final moments, she worried about her eldest son, who would be left alone. However, she woke up in the hospital bed, realizing she had been reborn seven days after her delivery. Clinging to the memories of her tragic past life, where she had been exploited by her in-laws and lost all three children to neglect and abuse, she resolved to protect her family this time.

Upon returning home, Xing Zhaozhao found her two sons, Hongfei and Hongyu, being bullied by village children who called them traitors. In her previous life, she had forced them to apologize, breaking their spirits. This time, she supported their right to defend their father's honor. When she arrived at the Gao family home to retrieve her belongings, Gao Old Lady refused to return the stolen items and demanded Xing Zhaozhao leave. Utilizing her innate supernatural strength, inherited through the female line, Xing Zhaozhao kicked down the door and reclaimed her property. She publicly severed all family ties with the Gao clan, refusing to accept any financial settlement, and moved her family to an abandoned stone house halfway up the mountain, a place rumored to be haunted.

While exploring the cellar of her new home, Xing Zhaozhao discovered a mysterious metallic door that had not been there before. Stepping through it, she found herself in a different time period, fifty-six years in the future, in the year 2025. The village she knew had been submerged under a reservoir, and the landscape was unrecognizable. During her first excursion, she encountered a hunting party led by Gao Yang and his teenage nephew, Gao Lianzhou. A wild boar charged at the boy, and Xing Zhaozhao punched the beast to death with her bare hands, saving the child. She requested the boar as payment and carried the heavy carcass back through the door, leaving the hunters bewildered by her strength and strange attire.

Xing Zhaozhao realized the door provided a bridge between her past and the future, offering a chance to secure a better life for her children. She used the meat from the boar to generate income and improve her family's diet. Her eldest son, Hongfei, matured rapidly, taking on the role of the household's pillar and caring for his younger siblings. One day, her younger son Hongyu followed her to the cellar and witnessed her disappear through the wall, causing him great distress. Xing Zhaozhao continued to use the portal, traveling to 2025 to find work and resources. She took a manual labor job at a construction site run by the Zhaohong Group, where she effortlessly moved massive loads of bricks, earning three thousand yuan in two hours. Unbeknownst to her, Gao Yang, the man she had saved in the past, was the young master of the Zhaohong Group and recognized her at the construction site, setting the stage for further connections between the two timelines.